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Jon from nPips Games (King & Peasant, Furmation of Rome) and Chee Kong from Haribol Way (Zodiac Go) are two of my regular game exhibition buddies. We have been to many game exhibitions together, not just in Malaysia but also in Thailand and in the Philippines. In July, they went to Korea. I could not join them, so I asked them to share their experiences with me. We did

Similo is a cooperative card game that is doing well. There are many different decks with different themes and characters. So far I have played three of them. In this game one player is the clue giver and the rest are guessers. A grid of 4x3 is laid out. One of these cards is a secret goal which only the clue giver knows. The clue giver needs to provide information to the rest

Pioneer Days comes highly recommended by Buddhima. I have never heard of this game before. It never made any big splash when it was first released. Now this is a rare game. It is a solid design. It has an interesting balance of competition and collaboration, and combo development.  Every round, a number of dice equal to one more than the number of players are

Three Sisters is a traditional companion planting technique where corn, climbing beans and winter squash (e.g. pumpkins) are planted together, and each of them provides benefits to the other two. The game Three Sisters is a roll-and-write game about agriculture and farming. Everyone has his own player sheet. Dice are rolled every round to determine the possible actions. You

I did a spoiler-free post about Regicide Legacy in April, giving a quick overview and showing the basic game components. This post continues from there. The first part of this post will contain no spoilers. If you have not played the game and you are thinking about it, it's safe to proceed.  I played the Regicide Legacy campaign with younger